changing views over time

Question 1

First performance

Answer 1

1611
-Ariel, the role would be assumed by a boy player
-Caliban becomes trinculos subordinate, and emphasis is on the comical (Davenant-Dryden-shadwell)

Question 2

17th century

Answer 2

Caliban; PEPYS’S diary entry describes caliban as a monster which infers caliban was presented as deformed
Ariel: RAVENAND DRYDEN production Ariel appears accompanied by a female sprite -Milcha

Question 3

18th centry ariel

Answer 3

-Ariel played by a woman, beginning of the restoration

Question 4

19th century Ariel

Answer 4

Ariel, performed by Priscilla Horton, flies in a fairy costume on wire , singing enchantedly

Question 5

1900-1950

Answer 5

Ariel and caliban portrayed as opposites to each other, in size, attitude, colour and sex
-Ariel is loyal female, white creature of the air, happy to please her master
-caliban is dark and earthly, many, and a creature of the earth

Question 6

1970 Ariel

Answer 6

Noman Beatons Ariel, a lordly African colonised by European prospero, impatient for independence

Question 7

1998Ariel

Answer 7

Adrian nobel
-Fredian interpretation
-presentes Ariel and caliban as elemental conjured from prosperos sub conscience, this was indicated through costume design
-Ariel covered in white body paint
-Caliban covered in black slime
-representing different aspects of proposers phsyche

Question 8

2016 Ariel

Answer 8

RSC production with cgi ariel , dramatic affects

Question 9

1890 Caliban

Answer 9

FRANK BENSON
-he spend hours watching monkeys in the zoo to portray caliban as the ‘missing link’
-Caliban the missing link in the Darwin evolutionary chain (between pea and humanss)

Question 10

1970 Caliban and Ariel

Answer 10

-Jonathon Millers Mermaid theatre
-post colonial viewpoint
- Two West Indian actors were cast to play Ariel and caliban
Ariel was a educated slave, ready t take control when the colonists left, while caliban was a uneducated field slave
-bot caliban and Ariel are black

Question 11

21st century caliban

Answer 11

-Caliban represents any oppressed group
NEW YORK: punk rocker
LOS ANGELIES: American indian

Question 12

1978 Griego Strehler

Answer 12

• the play is seen as a metaphor for the theatre, prospero is stage manager who dominates the precedings

Question 13

2010 film adaptation

Answer 13

‘female prospero played by Helen mirren
-holds a right wing feminist position, which links the masculine sexualisation of the female body with moral corruption